Early Years Practitioner Unqualified

Early Years Practitioner(Unqualified)

Location:Exeter

Salary: 12.71 per hour

Contract/Hours:Permanent/Part Time 10 hours per week (Lunch Cover)

Closing date:Midnight on the 1^st of July 2026

Benefits:

• Time off to recharge 25 days per year plus bank holidays
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Treat yourself:Staff discounts portal and blue light card with 15000 retailers.
• Enhanced Well-being: 8 sessionsIn-Person Phone or Online Counselling or CBT
• Salary Finance access tofinancial advice and the ability to manage savings or loans directly from your salary.
• Childcare Discount A whopping 60% off childcare within our nurseries and out of school clubs
• Up to 3 Days Dependency Leave to care for dependents in an emergency.
• Paid maternity adoption and paternity leave.
• Secure your future:Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• 24/7 Confidential Helplinespeak to trained counsellors any time 365 days a year for emotional wellbeing or mental health support.

About the role:

As an Early Years Practitioner (lunch cover) youll play an important role within our nursery team working closely with experienced practitioners to help create a safe happy and engaging environment where every child can thrive. This is an active and rewarding role supporting children throughout the lunch period.

As a lunch cover practitioner you will work across the nursery supporting different rooms to ensure staffs are able to take their breaks whilst maintaining ratio requirements and providing high quality care for the children.

There may be opportunity to pick up additional shifts to support with holiday cover staff absence and operation requirements across the nursery.

How youll help create brighter futures

• Provide high quality care and education for children in line with the EYFS
• supervised children during lunch periods ensuring a safe and positive mealtime experience.
• Support children with developing independence and good eating habits.
• Assist different rooms is required to provide staff breaks and operational support.
• Help with setting up and clearing away lunch areas where required.
• Work as part of a team to create a safe stimulating and nurturing environment for our children
• Support and contribute to planning exciting playbased activities that spark creativity and curiosity.

Lets talk about you

In the role of Early Years Practitioner (Unqualified) were ideally looking for someone who has:

• A passion for learning and developing whether youre new to the sector or already have experience.
• Experience working with children in an Early Years or childcare environment.
• An understanding of childrens developmental needs from birth to five years.
• A positive attitude and a commitment to delivering highquality care and experiences.

About the Nursery:

Spring Cedars Is a vibrant home from home setting where imaginations run free little voices fill the air muddy boots are worn with pride. Our newly renovated nursery reopened in January 2026 bringing fresh bright inspiring spaces along with our much-loved outdoor garden where children climb dig imagine and discover to their hearts content.

Why Spring Nurseries

Imagine a place where laughter echoes imaginations run wild and every day is a new adventure. Thats Spring Nursery! Were not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children part of Action for Children were on a mission to provide outstanding early education thats accessible to all.

At Spring we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role.

Ready to make a difference in the lives of children Whether youre looking for a career change or the next step in your journey wed love to hear from you!

Apply now and help us give children a healthy start in life!

Contact: If you need support with your application please contact our Recruitment Team at quoting reference 13271.

Well be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion

At Spring were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore all applicants are expected tohaveanunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguarding best-practice.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details CV Supporting Statement & Information Equality & Diversity Submission & Declaration please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool:Were sure youve got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If youre unsuccessful this time around wed like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if youd rather we didnt do that.

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See below for further information about working with us:

Employee Reward Booklet

Spring Early Years Career Pathway

Job Description